Nemesio Barreto Monzón19 december 2007 – 19:13

After 43 years a Swedish resident in Paraguay, receiving the news that his father had died in Sweden in 1964, leaving his death one of the largest furniture shops in Stockholm. The story goes back to 1950, when a young Swedish reaches Asuncion and marries a Paraguayan. After the wedding the couple traveled to Sweden and settled in Stockholm, a city where two children were born. In 1954 both return to Paraguay with his two sons. Karl Ljunggren returns to Stockholm, Sweden in September 1957. His wife and two children remain in Paraguay. Since 1961, for reasons not clarified, the husband, who was vice-consul of Paraguay in Stockholm, and his wife lost contact. Mrs. Ljunggren died in Asuncion in 1997, without ever having returned to Sweden. Lastly, receives the news that his paternal grandmother had died in 1968, who also leaves some real estate in Stockholm.

Ljunggren´s case

Karl Ljunggren, Swedish and Concepcion Romero, Paraguayan, celebrate marriage in Paraguay (1950) and immediately traveled to Stockholm, Sweden, where fixed residence. Four years after returning to Paraguay. After remaining two years in Paraguay, the husband traveled to Sweden for business and never returned. In 1961 the husband obtains in Sweden annulment of the marriage. In 1963 the husband contracted marriage again, this time with Helena Britt Kneck, Norwegian. In 1964 Karl Ljunggren dies in Sweden, leaving her two sons in Paraguay. In the year 2007 one of sons, a Swedish resident in Paraguay, receives the news that his father had died in Sweden in 1964. Given the complexity of the case, how should integrate in correct form the lawsuit? In response to the last marital home was Paraguay can be made a few questions: Does the judge Swedish court to annul a marriage held in the Republic of Paraguay? Put another way can a Swedish judge to declare the nullity of a marriage validly held in Paraguay? ¿Are prescribe the inheritance petition? What is the applicable law, the Swedish or the Paraguayan? Who decides what the applicable law is? For all of a sudden, what is known is that two lawyers were Swedes who had allegedly acted in the annulment of the marriage and in the disposition of assets of the family Ljunggren, one of them, Sven Janzon, died in 1987, and the other is lawyer Axel Lidbeck, who still lives.

Inheritance petition, relevant facts

Between 1918-1960, the company "Ljunggren Brothers" was the owner of one of the big factories furniture in Stockholm, the equivalent of the Swedish IKEA in the same period. The company president was, since 1925, Karl Torsten Ljunggren (1893-1958) married with Maria Elfrida Lindner (1889-1968) on May 19, 1926. The only child of this marriage Karl Torsten Ulf Ljunggren (1928-1964), arrived in Paraguay in 1950, to see a property in the Chaco, which his father would have received in giving of payment from another Swedish. During his stay in Asuncion "Carlos" knows Concepcion Romero (1927-1997), which marries on May 6, 1950. Concepcion Romero ("Kiki") was born in the Paraguayan town of Quindy, March 24, 1927. She never returned to Sweden. However, on the death of her husband in 1964 and her mother-in-law in 1968, she fell in the line of succession. In ignorance of these facts, Concepcion Romero died in Asuncion on February 9, 1997, leaving two sons, born of her marriage to Karl Torsten Ulf Ljunggren.

Assets left by Karl Torsten Ljunggren and his mother Maria Elfrida Lindner

After the death of his father in 1958, Karl Torsten Ljunggren became a co-owner of the well-known signature "Ljunggren Brothers", Stockholm, located on the street Malmskillnadsgatan 17-23 (which occupied an entire city block) and the furniture warehouse "AB Brothers Ljunggrens möbellager "on the street Sveavägen, 147. On the roof of the warehouse, according to a 1959 photograph, there was a huge sign that read: "Never marries before visiting Ljunggrens Brothers" ("Gift er aldrig utan att du besök Bröderna Ljunggrens). Karl Torsten Ljunggren, was vice-consul of Paraguay in Stockholm between the years 1953-1961, responsible for consular affairs, along with the multimillionaire Gustaf Bertil Örn (1903-1974), then General Consul of Paraguay in Sweden. Indeed, consular affairs were handled in an office located on the street Malmskillnadsgatan 17, in the City of Stockholm. Karl Ljunggren lived on the streets Strandvägen No. 57 and had another apartment on the street Linnégatan No. 96, both of which are located in the most expensive neighborhood in the Swedish capital. As for the huge building on the street Malmskillnadsgatan 17-23, located between the streets Mäster Samuelsgatan and Jakobsbergsgatan, block called "Putten," was completely demolished in 1964, built in its place some buildings between the years 1964-1968. It is learnt that in the same place operated "Bank of Gothenburg (Göteborgs Bank). Time later became owned by the consortium "Nordea", which sold the north side of the building to "Property Norscan Putten AB, a subsidiary of Cardinal Investment Partners, while the other building, the south wing, is currently owned the real estate company "Diligentia Storstockholm AB, a subsidiary of the insurance company "Skandia". The latter Skandia and Diligentia have a combined total turnover, globally, nearly 4,500 million Euros: "Skandia", 4,161 billion and "Diligentia, 299 million euros.

Sources:

Paraguay and its bonds with Sweden. (Paraguay y sus vínculos con Suecia). Nemesio Barreto Monzón. Asuncion, 1992.

Teacher Magazine. 52° edition, 1933. (Svensk Läraretidning, 52:a årg. 1933). (Svensk Läraretidning, 52: årg. 1933).

The Death Certificate reads: "The Director Karl Torsten Ljunggren, of the street Strandvägen B 57, born on November 19, 1893, died in Stockholm on May 10, 1958, according certifies Oscar’s Parish. Stockholm 14 May 1958. Parish priest: Johan Hoff" (Excerpt from the Book of Death).

Elfrida Maria Lindner Ljunggren died on January 29, 1968. The cause of his death was a pulmonary edema, according to records left by the doctor Gunborg Borg in the Death Certificate).

Stockholm City Museum´s Library